Just to clarify... I didn't upgrade the forum for fun. phpBB2 is an unsupported security hole which allowed the hack to happen. I didn't upgrade it before now since I was either busy or unmotivated, because I knew it'd be difficult with the custom changes/site integration. At least the hack/upgrade didn't happen during the busy summer/fall con season. (no offense to winter cons, and yes, I know it's not technically winter yet) So the old forum won't be back, sorry.

It's been a week... you can see what the old forum looked like again here. (That's an inactive forum, so it may not be able to be hacked. It's just a demo anyway)

Of course, since phpBB3 is the current version, security patches will be released. (I follow the phpBB news feed) Upgrading, for example, 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 is much easier than 2.0.23 to 3.0.1. (we're using the latest version as of this writing)

Orwell wrote:Will we see a return of the old board style eventually?

This is subSilver2, which is the phpBB3 version of subSilver, which we used before. I looked briefly but haven't seen an exact subSilver clone.

Scintilla wrote:Any chance we could get the [url] tag tweaked to accept relative paths for space-saving purposes, like url=/video/36860?

I don't know right now.

Scintilla wrote:And can custom tags still be added? Because ^H jokes don't work nearly as well as strikeout jokes...

Oh how I hatelove those jokes... Tag added.

Sereenie wrote:That being said, where's the "New posts since last visit" feature? I think it may just have changed names, but I can't find it.

Now that we're kind of "moving on" so to speak, how about we begin to loosen certain restrictions that have been with us since 2001. Such as, signature height. I'm certainly not in favor of taking out the restrictions all together (if you go to other non-regulated boards, you'll see RIDICULOUSLY huge sigs. Certainly not advocating that). However, we've had this whole, "no bigger than 600x40, but you can have 2 of them" thing in place for a while. So what many people do is just make 2 of them and have them stack for a resulting height of 80. Why not just give up the ghost and say "600x80 total"?

Keep in mind, it's honestly been a long time since I've actually gone through the official forum rules so this may have been changed long ago, but this is how I currently know it. Thoughts?

Now that we're kind of "moving on" so to speak, how about we begin to loosen certain restrictions that have been with us since 2001. Such as, signature height. I'm certainly not in favor of taking out the restrictions all together (if you go to other non-regulated boards, you'll see RIDICULOUSLY huge sigs. Certainly not advocating that). However, we've had this whole, "no bigger than 600x40, but you can have 2 of them" thing in place for a while. So what many people do is just make 2 of them and have them stack for a resulting height of 80. Why not just give up the ghost and say "600x80 total"?

Keep in mind, it's honestly been a long time since I've actually gone through the official forum rules so this may have been changed long ago, but this is how I currently know it. Thoughts?

I think we're all going to get used to the new screen width. I'll admit I was kinda "eh" about it at first, but it's only because my eyes have been so used to a specific look for so long. But, I agree that it helps with screen real estate, and dynamic width is a more "current" web interface, when you consider the now wide range of displays.

Screen width is nice, I hope we'll see as much of a restoration of the old forum as is viable though for buttons at the top. I hate having to go through so many hoops to get to a single feature of the user control panel.

If you click on the forum profile from the org profile, it still says the forums are down. How about a Send PM function from the org profile?

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